Allyson, et al, I know that, I swear I do, but I still can't stop asking why. I compare my life to the Adena Watson case for a reason, after all.

Susan, I did get that email! Sorry I didn't reply. She's not one of my favorites. She's not not, if that makes sense, but some of her stuff seems oversimplified for my taste. (And see above to P-C -- I'm enjoying the book very much, and I will email comments soon, I promise. I tend to say yes to too many things, very often things I really want to do, but with the number of things I have to do lately, I have to learn to leave myself more time to, well, sleep. Eat. Breathe. That stuff.)

Understood. As I mentioned over in Bitches, I got the results back from another contest, and feel like I got pretty good feedback. Based on my oh-so-extensive experience of two contests, it seems like of any three random readers, one will so completely love what I'm doing that she won't see any significant faults. So I don't need to worry about her. The second reader just won't get what I'm trying to do--she'll either completely dislike the story, or her comments will show she's just missed the point. I don't need to worry about her, either. The third reader gets what I'm trying to do and likes it, but isn't so blinded by what I do well that she can't see the faults. That's the reader I should be writing for. If I can win her over, I'll be in.

Susan roooooocks.

P-C is good for Susan's ego.

Waiting for Tim's approval on his story, goofily titled: Minearest and Dearest, and then will have that available for beta read for parties interested in doing me a favor, you know, if he approves.

Finishing up next essay tonight. Moving along, moving along. I think so far I have 3 and a half that I'd like to use. I've no idea what is an acceptable length. Thinking out loud.

goofily titled: Minearest and Dearest

That's totally awesome. Rather brilliant, actually. I'm a sucker for good puns.

Me please, Allyson. I'll be checking in sporadically most of the day, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

I don't expect him to get to it until he's finished with the Moon rewrite. Could be another week or so, depending.

Mememe Allyson. BTW, backflung on the first one.

Want More!!! WantWantWant.

You know that form rejection letter I got the other day? I just found out the agent in question is no longer with the agency--since he's supposed to be at the writers conference I'm attending in October, the organizers are trying to find out what's up. I.e. is he working, either setting up his own agency or joining another agency, if so is he still interested in our conference, etc.? It's apparently a very recent thing, probably between the time I submitted and when I received my rejection.

Anyway, am I right in thinking maybe my rejection meant nothing at all? IOW, any queries sent to him just got the form rejection?